Orascom Development Holding AG
Since his appointment as Orascom Development’s Group Chief Digital Officer in 2021, Dr. Shabana has led the group digital transformation strategy and implementation across its destinations and hotels. He started his career at IBM before pursuing his doctoral studies. He later taught at Texas A&M University for seven years before joining the Advisory practice at Ernst and Young LLP in 2000. He joined the Partnership in 2004 and served clients in the financial services and Telecommunications sectors in the US and Switzerland. In the Middle East, he served commercial and governmental clients. He joined IBM Middle East in 2015 as a Smarter Government leader for Saudi Arabia and was involved in several of the Kingdom’s large digital transformation initiatives. He is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
Shabana holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MBA from the American University in Cairo.
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Orascom Development Holding AG
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Orascom Development Holding AG is a Switzerland-based company engaged in the real estate sector. Through its subsidiaries, the Company develops and manages integrated towns; hotels; private villas and apartments; and leisure facilities, notably golf courses and marinas. Its activities are divided into five segments: the Hotels segment involves operations related to hotels; the Real Estate and Construction segment involves acquiring land banks and constructing residential real estate; the Destination Management segment maintains finished construction projects; the Land Sale segment manages land transactions; and the Other Activities segment includes mortgage financing, development and management. Its portfolio includes touristic destinations in seven countries: Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Oman, Switzerland, Morocco, Montenegro, and the United Kingdom. The Company's wholly owned subsidiaries include Orascom Hotels and Development in Egypt.